Liber ab Tres II (Book of Three, Part II)^105
feet. The festivities (body of the rite) then continue with the future bride and future
groom as the earthly representatives of our Lord and Lady for the celebration. The
same would be true of the exchanging of the varar at a wedding. Note that I used an
example of a monogamous heterosexual couple only for ease of conversation.
And what of a child’s Wiccaning? Who better to be host (priest) and hostess (priest-
ess) than the father and mother of the child who is being Wiccaned? Why then would
their words, their public declaration of their role in the child’s life, come out of a book
written by Doreen Valiente, Aleister Crowley, Charles Leland, or myself? Would a rite
of adoption (also a Wiccaning) be any different? What about a rite of passage or of
death? A celebration of the Holidays? A prayer over the meal? While the so-called
traditional Charges might be pretty and fanciful, they are no equal to the words found
in one’s own heart.Three Is the Connection Between Above and Below
As the trunk of that tree reaching for both Sky and Earth, we are the connection
between our Lord and Lady. Because we see our Lord and Lady through human eyes,
it is natural that in seeing these three states in ourselves, we would see the same states
in them. This is where Wicca has found its concept of the Triple Goddess and her
husband the Triple God to also have a beginning, middle, and end.Three Daughters of the Dagda (and their husbands)—Female (male)—Central Europe
Irish lore gives us both a Triple Goddess and her husband in the three daughters of the
Dagda. Here we see the principle of potential, opportunity, and conclusion shown on a
more personal level. Here they are personified as youth, adult, and senior.Relation Name Life State Condition Element
Husband Mac Greine Master Changing Fire
Wife Eire Maiden Changing Water
Husband Mac Cecht Father Transitional Earth
Wife Fodhla Mother Transitional Air
Husband Mac Cuill Sage Unchanging Ether
Wife Banbha Crone Unchanging EtherAllat—Female—Middle East/Mediterranean
She is known in her totality as Allat, Wife of Allah who bore Al-Uzza and Menat (daugh-
ters and aspects of the whole). She is also known as one of the three daughters of
Allah, probably the result of a patriarchal shift. Although she is not generally con-
nected to the three phases of life in her appearance, her three aspects are connected to
the lunar cycle, which is in turn connected to the three stages of life.l WB Chap 05.p65 105 7/11/2003, 5:50 PM